Started about a week ago when my computer froze, so I had to try a hard restart. But when it booted back up it went into a Windows Automatic Repair mode. If I let it run through it wouldn't find anything but wouldn't proceed to windows. And rebooting again just started the loop over again. Trying to remember what order I tried things, but not sure.

This sounded like my issue https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us.....3-aff6a3cd79bb so I tried the Answer to go into Command Prompt, which I don't remember how I got into and tried the Chkdsk and sfc commands. I cant remember if I tried a reboot after that or if I also tried the steps in the replies that were bootrec commands. One of the bootrec commands came back with an Access denied message which I took as something that needed to be fixed, which lead me to rename/reorder some of the partitions I think. Wasn't till after this I found a youtube video with the same commands only they said that the Access Denied message was normal and not something I needed to worry about. X3

I've tried doing a Windows reinstall with trying to keep my files using a USB to do so, but when it tried it gave some error message about the USB being put in before the install or something I can't remember, should have taken picture of things as I tried them. X3 Tried looking at the BIOs to try and figure out the order but I didn't know what was what. Also not sure if there was a specific USB port I should have put the thumb drive in. I didn't see anything that sounded like there was a hardware failure, but maybe I just didn't know what to look for. So I don't know if I messed anything up with the BIOs like the boot order, or with the partitions.

I do have an External Hard drive I could use if I could figure out a way to still transfer my files off some how.

I would normally get my brother for help with this kind of thing but he hasn't had any days off for awhile and doesn't know when he will so I don't want to push him on it.

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Ok, so tried the boot rec commands again then tried to do an windows install again but it got stuck on "Setup is Starting". So I looked to what could be the issue and found this. https://www.thewindowsclub.com/wind.....g-installation which suggested to uses the DISM tool in Command Prompts https://www.thewindowsclub.com/comp.....-windows-image but when I tried it I got Error: 50 DISM Does not support servicing Windows PE with /Online Option. The DISM Log file can be found at x:windows\logs\DISM\dism.log so I found this on how to fix https://www.makeuseof.com/view-dism.....files-windows/ but the commands just gave me the same error: 50

I wasn't sure what to try at this point so I thought I'd take another look at the partitions to see if maybe it's looking for things in the wrong space or something. There are 2 two partitions that say Hidden under info, which is concerning. One is labeled System Rese but none of the others are labeled. Looking on line sounds like one should be an EFI partition without it windows won't boot, but I don't see it. I saw steps to create one, but I didn't know if I should.